Make A Wish

Chapter 10

"Alright well then I guess I'll see you on Friday" I said.

"Okay, I'll talk to you later, alright?" she asked. I didn't want her to go, but I just replied "Okay" and hung up. 

I decided to head down stairs for some breakfast with the other lads, and found that Zayn wasn't down there. 

"Hey, wheres Zayn?"

"Still nursing that hangover. I'm surprised you aren't!" Louis joked.

"Ah shut up, I wasn't that drunk."

"Do you remember what you did last night?" Niall asked.

"Well, erm, I think I went for a walk with Zayn."

The boys errupted in laughter and I didn't know why.

"Wanna see the video?" said Niall.

"Ah shit, what did I do?" I was starting to get nervous. Niall handed me my phone and showed me a recording of me drunkenly meeting fans and, even better, exclaiming my love for Carson. So thats why she was making fun of me. 

"So, you've got a new girlfriend, do you?" Liam said jokingly.

"She's not really my girlfriend." I stated. They didn't seem convinced.

"Drunken words are sober thoughts, mate" Niall said. 

I laughed, denying it, but not really wanting to.

"We know you want her to be your girlfriend." Louis said, right as Zayn walked into the restraunt.

"Yeah, maybe I do." I said smugly. 

Zayn shot me one glance before talking to the other boys, and I couldn't help but notice he didn't make eye contact with me the rest of the time. 

Right as we finished eating, someone came to tell us a car was waiting outside to take us to the studio. Surprisingly, I guess because it was early morning, we managed to get out the back without much difficulty, and were on our way to the studio. 

I thought they would have a new song to introduce to us when we got there, but as we walked in all I saw were pads of paper and a box of pens. 

We sat down on the couch and a man who I barely recognized, maybe he'd worked with us once before, came in to talk to us.

"Obviously," he started, "you guys had a pretty good outcome with your first album. People loved your songs. But you're not babies anymore. You're no longer rookies to this business. If you want people to love your work, you're going to have to start coming up with some of your own shit."

"I'm confused... who are you?" Liam asked.

"I'm Steven Billingham. And I'm going to make you guys write your own hit song."

"Erm..." Zayn mumbled. "What are we supposed to write about?"

"Thats up to you. You guys have like 15 minutes to brainstorm ideas while I go talk to my boss. Its speed thinking. Go."

Then he walked out.

We all kind of sat dumbfounded on the couch, not really sure where to start.

"Alright. Okay. Here we go. What do we write about?" Liam said trying to get us inspired.

"I have no fucking idea." Niall stated. 

"We don't have any inspiration" Zayn added.

"Well most songs are about relationships" Louis said, "Harry I think you've got this one".

I wasn't really sure what to say. 

"Erm...well, I don't know..." I kind of mumbled.

"They're not in a relationship guys." Zayn said almost immediately.

As soon as he said it, he looked kind of embarrassed and shot me an apologetic look. 

There was an awkward silence for a couple minutes, where we occasionally shot out ideas of being teens, liking a girl, being famous, but by the time Steven got back we didn't have much to tell him. 

"So, anything boys?" he asked us.

We all just kind of looked at each other.

"Not really" Zayn told him.

"Good. When you're song writing, things take time. You're not going to get anywhere in 15 minutes. Now, I know you must have had a couple ideas, though, let me hear them."

"Well we wanted Harry to write about his new girl, but he doesn't seem to keen on it." Louis said.

"And why is that?" Steven asked me.

"Well... I don't know. I don't want to write just another song about relationships. Theres more to life. I want to write about something deeper."

"I love it." Steven said, shaking my hand. He looked at the rest of the boys. "Think like Harry. This week, you'll be recording some songs that were written for you, but just try to think about something that inspires you."

I didn't even have to ask the other boys what they were thinking when he said 'something that inspires you'. The only thing on all of our minds was Mary.